The refining capacity of a complex in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk will be expanded in part to better serve community needs, the Iraqi oil minister said. “The Ministry of Oil is working to add a new refining unit to Kirkuk refinery with a capacity of 10,000 barrels per day before the end of the year,” Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said in a statement . The northern city of Kirkuk has been at the center of disputes between the central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government. The terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State waged an offensive on Kirkuk last year. The oil minister said in a telegram to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi that refinery development […]